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S1: A $6 R1 competitor?
A new paper released on Friday is making waves in the AI community, not because of the model it describes, but because it shows how close we are to some very large breakthroughs in AI. The model is just below state of the art, but it can run on my laptop.
As we’ll see, they heavily used a technique called ablation, re-running the entire training process with small variations in configuration to prove what works and what doesn’t. We like to think that OpenAI or DeepSeek are simply packed full of brilliant people and they make a wild guess, spend $10,000,000.00 on a training run and BAM! It’s tempting to see cost reducing innovations like s1 or DeepSeek V3 and assume that OpenAI & Anthropic’s vast datacenters are a waste of money.
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